Laurinda Lind is a caregiver in New York’s North Country, close to Canada. Some of her writing is in Atlanta Review, The Cortland Review, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway. She is a Keats-Shelley Prize winner and a finalist in eight other competitions, most recently the Joy Bale Boon Poetry Prize and the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee.